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Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.